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N.C. state Rep. Becky Carney lost a pulse after collapsing in her House office due to what doctors later called heart arrhythmia.
Rep. Bob England, a fellow legislator and physician, administered a shock from a portable defibrillator before she was taken to the hospital.
Doctors there implanted a combination pacemaker and defibrillator on her left ventricle. Family members said they expected her to be back at work soon.
She says she’s kept up with House and constituent business and hopes to return to floor sessions next week.
“It takes time to build your strength back up,” Carney, 64, said Monday. “As they say, I died and (was) revived.”
“I’m incrementally getting better,” she says. “But it’s been an adjustment. We just have to listen to our bodies. And I’m listening this time.”
